Pinna of mature Fronti, uj per side.
HYPOLEPIS REPENS.
P r e s l . H o o k e r . L i n k . F e e . B a u e r .
M o o r e a n d H o u l s t o n . J. S m i t h . S i e b e r . P l u m i e r .
P L A T E X I . V O L . IV .
Lo n ch itis repens,
Cheilanthes repens,
“ aculeata,
Dichsonia aculeata.
L i KNAIUS. P l UMIEE. E.ADDI.
SwAETZ. WiLLD EKOW.
K a u l f u s s . K u n z e .
K a u l f u s s . K u n z e .
S p e e n g e l .
JLypolepis—F rom two Greek words, implying under, and a scale.
Hcpens—Creeping.
A H A N D S O M E , robust, coarse-growing F e rn , wliicb seeds so
free ly, th a t when once obtained it is almost impossible to lose,
in d e ed it becomes a troublesome weed, covering every F e rn -
p an , to the exclusion of all less robust species.
A n evergreen stove F e rn .
Na tiv e of the AYest In d ie s, M a rtin iq u e , Jamaica, Brazil,
Organ Mountains, Galapagos, Columbia, and New Granada.
In tro d u c ed into E n g la n d in 18.35, and into the Roya l G a rdens,
K ew , in the y ear 1828.
F ro n d s decompound, th re e to four times pinnate, with
lanceolate-acuminate pinnules, and oblong-linear pinnatifid seg-
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